Alcoholic beverages have become
Americas number one public health problem, costing
over $117 billion a year and claiming at least 100,000
lives per year, 25 times as many as all illegal drugs
combined.

Christian churches are partly
responsible for the alcohol epidemic raging in America
today, because since the repeal of Prohibition in 1933,
most of them have abandoned their stand for total
abstinence, encouraging instead moderation in drinking.
Moderation has led millions to become immoderate
drinkers.

The gradual abandonment of total
abstinence by many well-meaning Christians has been
encouraged by the belief that the Bible sanctions a
moderate use of alcoholic beverages. This belief has
provided millions of Christians with an alleged biblical
justification for drinking alcohol.

In Wine in the Bible
Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi boldly challenges prevailing
thinking and scholarship. His painstaking research
compellingly shows that the Bible consistently teaches
total abstinence as a divine imperative. This teaching
has been obscured by many modern Bible versions which
mistranslate as "temperance" or
"sobriety" some of the clearest biblical
admonitions to "abstinence." A thoughtful
reading of this book may well provoke a revolution in the
attitude of many Christians toward alcoholic beverages.